i have been in the land of the mouse for the past week now. i never thought having fun could be so incredibly tiring!! i must have walked 300 miles this past week! but really, it was an amazing trip. the last time i went to disneyworld was a total suckfest because i just got dropped off in the morning at the gates by my parents with my sister, brother, and a friend and we got stuck there all day long. disney is fun and all, but 14 hours straight of it can really tell on one's nerves. i hated it. lines were about 4 hours long and nothin was that fun cuz i had no idea where i was going or what i was doing.
this time though, we had park hoppers. what a great invention. you can go to a not-so-crowded park in the morning, and if it gets full you just "hop" over to another one. or if it's hot you can head over to epcot to ride all those sit down, indoor rides with the great air conditioning. you can do what you want and hit the big rides and just get the other ones some other day. it's amazing. plus, the days you don't use, you get to keep indefinately for another trip!! anyways, it really was a lifesaver. i managed to get through the whole week with minimal soreness and without really getting fed up or anything.
a few things i did notice about WDW though... it's great that they employ people who are multi-lingual to be able to speak to all of our foreign visitors. but the people should be able to speak freakin english as well. asking complicated questions like how late does the monorail run? became quite an ordeal. there were also a few workers, like the woman at the front desk at my resort, who were consistently giving us wrong information. she really had this clueless look on her face and she clearly had no fuckin idea what was going on.
another thing that cracked me up were the people with the really little kids in strollers. those things are like 4 feet wide and they are constantly rolling over your toes and bumping into your heels. they think because they have a four year old and a stroller they can just plow right through everything. they might actually be better off if they installed plows on the fronts of those things, because a lot of parents would use their strollers to plow through crowds. of course everyone jumps out of the way because noone wants to fall on the little kid riding along not realizing that mom and dad are using them as a human shield.
overall though, i did have a lot of fun. i got to do every ride worth doing, shop, go swimming, meet my boyfriend's family, party at pleasure island, and get my picture with goofy. that's all that really matters. i'm just ready to sleep for a week now.
